Re: Debian on Dell Poweredge 750 and 1750 servers.

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 22:18 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 13. Dec, 2004 schwätzte elemint@theriver.com so:
>
> > I am going to be purchasing a Dell PowerEdge 750 and a Dell PowerEdge
> > 1750 and I wanted to confirm that the raid cards will work with Debian
> >
> >
> > In the 1750 the card is PERC4-DI, 128MB Battery Backed Cache, 1 Int 1
> > ext Ch-Embedded Raid PE1750 (340-8156)
> >
> > In the 750 the card is PERC4,DC,128MB,1 Internal Cha (342-0014) which
> > is an LSI controller - chipset LSI53C1030
> >
> >
> > Is there anything else that I should look at before I purchaase them to
> > be sure they will work with Debian?
>
> Ask the Dell salesdroid or salesmail if those boxen will work with Linux.
> They will probably quote some RH or another, but if it's in the kernel you
> can use it with any distro :). If they only claim RH enterprise something
> then you might want to verify that the drivers are available from
> kernel.org.
>
> Does RH ship with proprietary drivers? Is that something to check into as
> well?
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RedHat doesn't ship with proprietary drivers - Dell will provide the
megaraid drivers and they are obviously well versed in the megaraid
drivers - that is clear from the poweredge-linux mail list.

The only issue is whether they officially support Debian because
unofficial support is clearly evident.

Their openmanage software and other monitoring software may not be
offered for Debian - or at least not supported. I believe they have been
increasing their software support for other than RedHat EL software.

Craig

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